Union seeks chemicals legislation
The Canterbury Rubber Workers’ Union will try to get Parliament. to pass legislation on cancer-caus-ing chemicals. The union’s secretary (Mr L. G. Morel) said it hoped to present recommendations to a Labour member of . Parliament within a year. It . was hoped the member would present a bill to Parliament. “The legislation which we have is not modern enough to cope,” said Mr Morel. “We are obtaining information about legislation in Britain/ Canda, and the United States to see how it can applied to New Zealand.”
The union has been looking at the overseas information for about a year.’ . .
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